Daisuke Takakura “Monodramatic / Loose Polyhedron”

Tezukayama Gallery

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Takakura is an emerging photographer that has become internationally popular for his ‘Monodramatic’ series. His works were featured in various media such as CNN and The Guardian. In addition in 2015, “Crowd“ from the ‘Monodramatic’ series was chosen as the main visual image for Fotofever, a photography fair in Paris.
Takakura was born in 1980 in Saitama prefecture. He had been training as a theatre actor since he was a university student and is also a self taught graphic designer, before establishing his career as a photographer. Now he works without orders between design, theatre and photograph with his unique point of view.
In this exhibition, introduced is the most iconic work from the ‘Monodramatic’ series and also his brand new series ‘Loose Polyhedron’. With the ‘Monodramatic’ series Takakura captures “monodrama” as the theatre style known as a one-man play and uses collage techniques. The models are mostly actors or performers with their actions directed in order to create a story that depends on the location.
The new series ‘Loose Polyhedron’ is also a theatre play concept but he wanted to reduce the distance from the models. Takakura chooses models in their twenties and thirties and focuses on their emotions and expresses possibility and various aspects and also their represses feelings. Before taking a photograph, Takakura asks the performers to write their feelings on a pentagon chart and researches this beforehand. ‘Loose Polyhedron’, combines our future with their unstable emotions. The majority of these works are shown for the first time in the Kansai region.